Best Self-Hosted Container Tools

Manage the containers behind your home server with open-source self-hosted container tools. Explore Portainer alternatives and Compose managers that start, stop, update and inspect your stacks from a web dashboard instead of an SSH session.

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Coolify

Deploy household web apps and services to your own server through a dashboard for builds, domains, backups, and logs.

Free / paid cloud plansx86 + ARMPHP

Dockge

A web interface for creating, editing and updating Docker Compose stacks, from the developer of Uptime Kuma.

Freex86 + ARMNode

Dockhand

Portainer alternative with built-in vulnerability scanning, GitOps deployments, and zero telemetry.

Free + Commercialx86 + ARMNode

Komodo

Manage Docker containers, Compose stacks and image builds across as many servers as you like from one web interface.

Freex86 + ARMRust

Portainer

A web dashboard for managing containers, images, volumes and networks on Docker, Podman and Kubernetes hosts.

Free + Commercialx86 + ARMGo